How To Find People Using Google
How To Do a Google Search
Use your knowledge of how to find people using Google for most of your people searches, since it’s one of the two or three best ways on the Internet to find old friends, acquaintances and new contacts. There are situations where Yahoo Search is better, but Googling a person is done more times each day than any other kind of online searching.
Googling People
To begin with, a good place to start finding people with Google is at their homepage. Searching is simply a matter of placing a person’s name in a quotation marks and clicking “Google It”. For example, typing “Jane Smith” brings back all the examples of Jane Smith on the net. Remember, the quotation marks means these are examples were “Jane” follows “Smith”, so it narrows down the search somewhat.
Narrowing Your Google Searches
When you want to find someone and you’re pretty sure what town, part of the country or part of the world they live in, try Googles like “Jane Smith New York City” or “Jane Smith Manhattan” or “Jane Smith Essex County”. This will further narrow your search, so if your friend lives in New York, you aren’t finding all the Jane Smiths who live in Australia. Obviously, the more specific you can be, the more accurate your search and the less time you’ll have to click through results.
Another way to decrease the time spent finding people is to add specific details about them, such as professions, notable hobbies or other background details. For instance, if Jane Smith is a dental hygienist, then type in “Jane Smith dental hygienist” and see if that narrows your search down. The more details you enter, the better. So if you know that Jane Smith married Jack Jones and you’re pretty sure they live in Virginia, then type in “Jane Smith Virginia” along with “Jack Jones” and see if that doesn’t take you to your friend’s online information.
Related Google People Finders
Besides the basis Google search engine, there are all kinds of alternative methods for finding people online. There are also plenty of Google tools that help you maintain contact once you’ve found the person you’re looking for.
Below are 8 different net resources from Google that should help you find people online, then keep in touch with those people once you’ve made contact. Googling is a lot easier today than it was just 2 years ago, with improvements to old search tools and releases of totally new search functions.
- Google Custom Search – This lets you customize your searches, so you’ll have a ready made tool for people finding.
- Google Blog Search – Lets you look up people by finding their blog sites.
- Google Web Search Features – Take particular notice of the “local search” and “people profiles” search options on this page.
- Orkut from Google – Connect with friends and family, discover new people through your friends and share your videos, pictures and passions with the people you know.
- Google Talk – Once you’ve made contact with old friends and forged friendships with new ones, use Google Chat to keep up with the lives of your loved ones.
- Google Toolbar – You can download the Google toolbar and add your favorite Google search tools to your toolbar.
- Google Search For Mobile – If you need Google search options for your mobile phone, here’s where you need to be.
More Googgle Products
This is a page you can access the full range of Google online products, so you can keep checking out the latest releases from the people at Google. Since this billion dollar company continually puts out new web programs and functions, you should check out this page occasionally to see if there’s any new and innovative ways to perform online people searches.
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